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Watch Scarlett Johansson Team Up with Morgan Freeman in Brainy, Bottom-Kicking Thriller Lucy

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Don Jon, Her, and Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson has destroyed countless men with superhuman physicality, sexuality, empathy, and stone-cold detachment. And in Lucy, the cerebral summer thriller from Luc Besson, Johansson assumes her most sophisticated manslayer yet—the frighteningly brainy type whose IQ is so large that it poses a threat to all of mankind.

And, O.K., she also uses guns and brute force to ratchet up her badass quotient. But still, brain power! In the film—the latest female-assassin project from the man who brought us La Femme Nikita, The Professional, and The Fifth Element—Johansson stars as a captive drug mule in Taiwan who accidentally ingests a drug that allows her to utilize more cerebral capacity than her mortal counterparts. Based on the first trailer for the film, Morgan Freeman co-stars as an all-knowing researcher of the human brain who helps Johansson understand her meta-human condition. The film arrives in theaters on August 8.